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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

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At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

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A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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Best Uses of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Video Games

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We are eagerly waiting to see what the scheduled release of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X later this year will do to AR/VR gaming! While we wait, we compiled a list of the most exciting video games that feature different use cases of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) as key plot devices. Pick up any of these games!

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How science fiction precedes science fact and what it means for the metaverse

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Jules Verne-inspired space tourism is now a thing, video calls are de rigueur, and we all walk around with powerful computers in our pockets that connect to an infinite web of data and information — and yet we use this incredible computing power to play diverting games like Candy Crush and Wordle. Still from 2018 film Ready Player One.

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Oculus CTO John Carmack Talks Immersive Technology On The Joe Rogan Podcast

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It was a fairly engaging conversation, during which Rogan remained uncharacteristically quiet as Carmack dove into each new topic with considerable detail; not a huge surprise considering Rogan’s well-known love of Quake and DOOM , two video games in which Carmack served as lead programmer. . Image Credit: Joe Rogan Experience. [

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Oculus Announces ‘Wilson’s Heart’, a Twilight Zone-style Psychological Thriller for Touch

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The game uses Oculus Touch controller so you can examine clues and manipulate in-game objects naturally. Once a property of Microsoft Studios, Twisted Pixel but has since returned to the status of independent company last fall.

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

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. “While there was clear demand coming primarily from technology enthusiasts, what became readily apparent were the use cases for enterprise users across multiple verticals and for consumers with gaming and content consumption.

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